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House Hansard - 149

44th Parl. 1st Sess.
January 30, 2023 11:00AM
Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 4:08:10 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I am happy we are talking about this today. My own experience as a single parent is that I was working at a minimum wage trying to make ends meet and still, despite provincial subsidies, was unable to afford child care. My daughter is turning 20 on February 2 and my son is 15. This has been going on for generations and so many families are impacted by unaffordable and inaccessible child care. We can celebrate that this is moving in the right direction, but we also need to look at why it has taken so many generations for us to get to where we are today and to finally be implementing child care.
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 4:52:48 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Madam Speaker, I always like hearing more about what is happening with child care in Quebec because we know, when we look across Canada, that families in Quebec have been provided accessible child care, and the positives have been evident for many years. Unfortunately, that has not been the experience in many other provinces and territories. We know that this is a step in the right direction. We know that there gaps in moving forward, and that is why the New Democrats are pushing for solutions, such as fighting for child care and having explicit commitments for fair wages and working conditions for staff. Those are things we are pushing for. I am wondering if the member could speak to whether he feels that having this explicitly listed in the bill would help move us in the right direction and address some of the gaps he was identifying.
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Context: House Hansard - 149 - Jan/30/23
Ms. Lisa Marie Barron (Nanaimo—Ladysmith, NDP)
  • Jan/30/23 5:37:55 p.m.
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  • Re: Bill C-35 
Mr. Speaker, the member was talking about discrimination against women, and I found myself reflecting on what really does discriminate against women. We know that what discriminates against women is not having access to public and non-profit child care that provides affordable, high-quality and accessible day care for families who need it, not day care that makes profit off the backs of parents. We also know that public and non-profit child care provides better wages and working conditions for staff, who are predominantly women. The member is clearly very much in support of child care. How can the member justify throwing away a bill that would provide national, accessible, affordable child care for families as being in the best of interests of anybody?
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